The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Abstracted print composed of fractured and rounded geometric shapes in muted greens, reds, and yellows and depicting a central figure playing the violin, looking down at sheet music in lower corner of the print to our right. Behind the figure is a grand piano, another figure, seated at the keys to our left, playing it. A yellow beam of light radiates out a spotlight over the figures from the upper left.

Musicians

1949

Lill Tschudi

(Swiss, 1911–2004)
Switzerland
color linoleum cut
Sheet: 25.3 x 34.6 cm (9 15/16 x 13 5/8 in.); Image: 22 x 31.9 cm (8 11/16 x 12 9/16 in.)
Gift of Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer in memory of Dr. Eric Von Baeyer 1990.57
Catalogue raisonné: Coppel LT82
Location: Not on view

Description

Tschudi studied printmaking with Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London. She organized simplified, geometric designs-adopted from the flattened, fractured space of cubism-into dramatically patterned compositions. Like the other artists trained at the Grosvenor School, Tschudi was fascinated with the speed and motion of machines as well as the energy and rhythms of modern urban life.
  • (Mary Ryan Gallery, NY)
  • Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).
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